skggm : Gaussian graphical models using the scikit-learn API
In the last decade, learning networks that encode conditional independence relationships has become an important problem in machine learning and statistics. For many important probability distributions, such as multivariate Gaussians, this amounts to estimation of inverse covariance matrices. Inverse covariance estimation is now used widely in infer gene regulatory networks in cellular biology and neural interactions in the neuroscience.
However, many statistical advances and best practices in fitting such models to data are not yet widely adopted and not available in common python packages for machine learning. Furthermore, inverse covariance estimation is an active area of research where researchers continue to improve algorithms and estimators. With skggm we seek to provide these new developments to a wider audience, and also enable researchers to effectively benchmark their methods in regimes relevant to their applications of interest.
While skggm is currently geared toward Gaussian graphical models, we hope to eventually evolve it to support General graphical models. Read more here.
Inverse Covariance Estimation
Given n independently drawn, p-dimensional Gaussian random samples 
with sample covariance 
, the maximum likelihood estimate of the inverse covariance matrix 
can be computed via the graphical lasso, i.e., the program
where 
is a symmetric matrix with non-negative entries and
Typically, the diagonals are not penalized by setting 
to ensure that remains positive definite. The objective reduces to the standard graphical lasso formulation of Friedman et al. when all off diagonals of the penalty matrix take a constant scalar value 
. The standard graphical lasso has been implemented in scikit-learn.
In this package we provide a scikit-learn-compatible implementation of the program above and a collection of modern best practices for working with the graphical lasso. A rough breakdown of how this package differs from scikit's built-in GraphLasso is depicted by this chart:
Quick start
To get started, install the package (via pip, see below) and:
- read the tour of skggm at https://skggm.github.io/skggm/tour
- read @mnarayan's talk and check out the companion examples here (live via binder at here). Presented at HHMI, Janelia Farms, October 2016.
- basic usage examples can be found in examples/estimator_suite.py
This is an ongoing effort. We'd love your feedback on which algorithms and techniques we should include and how you're using the package. We also welcome contributions.
@jasonlaska and @mnarayan
Included in inverse_covariance
An overview of the skggm graphical lasso facilities is depicted by the following diagram:
Information on basic usage can be found at https://skggm.github.io/skggm/tour. The package includes the following classes and submodules.
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QuicGraphicalLasso [doc]
QuicGraphicalLasso is an implementation of QUIC wrapped as a scikit-learn compatible estimator [Hsieh et al.] . The estimator can be run in
defaultmode for a fixed penalty or inpathmode to explore a sequence of penalties efficiently. The penaltylamcan be a scalar or matrix.The primary outputs of interest are:
covariance_,precision_, andlam_.The interface largely mirrors the built-in GraphLasso although some param names have been changed (e.g.,
alphatolam). Some notable advantages of this implementation over GraphicalLasso are support for a matrix penalization term and speed. -
QuicGraphicalLassoCV [doc]
QuicGraphicalLassoCV is an optimized cross-validation model selection implementation similar to scikit-learn's GraphLassoCV. As with QuicGraphicalLasso, this implementation also supports matrix penalization.
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QuicGraphicalLassoEBIC [doc]
QuicGraphicalLassoEBIC is provided as a convenience class to use the Extended Bayesian Information Criteria (EBIC) for model selection [Foygel et al.].
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ModelAverage [doc]
ModelAverage is an ensemble meta-estimator that computes several fits with a user-specified
estimatorand averages the support of the resulting precision estimates. The result is aproportion_matrix indicating the sample probability of a non-zero at each index. This is a similar facility to scikit-learn's RandomizedLasso) but for the graph lasso.In each trial, this class will:
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Draw bootstrap samples by randomly subsampling X.
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Draw a random matrix penalty.
The random penalty can be chosen in a variety of ways, specified by the
penalizationparameter. This technique is also known as stability selection or random lasso. -
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AdaptiveGraphicalLasso [doc]
AdaptiveGraphicalLasso performs a two step estimation procedure:
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Obtain an initial sparse estimate.
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Derive a new penalization matrix from the original estimate. We currently provide three methods for this:
binary,1/|coeffs|, and1/|coeffs|^2. Thebinarymethod only requires the initial estimate's support (and this can be be used with ModelAverage below).
This technique works well to refine the non-zero precision values given a reasonable initial support estimate.
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inverse_covariance.plot_util.trace_plot
Utility to plot
lam_paths. -
inverse_covariance.profiling
The
.profilingsubmodule contains aMonteCarloProfiling()class for evaluating methods over different graphs and metrics. We currently include the following graph types:- LatticeGraph - ClusterGraph - ErdosRenyiGraph (via sklearn)An example of how to use these tools can be found in
examples/profiling_example.py.
Parallelization Support
skggm supports parallel computation through joblib and Apache Spark. Independent trials, cross validation, and other embarrassingly parallel operations can be farmed out to multiple processes, cores, or worker machines. In particular,
QuicGraphicalLassoCVModelAverageprofiling.MonteCarloProfile
can make use of this through either the n_jobs or sc (sparkContext) parameters.
Since these are naive implementations, it is not possible to enable parallel work on all three of objects simultaneously when they are being composited together. For example, in this snippet:
model = ModelAverage(
estimator=QuicGraphicalLassoCV(
cv=2,
n_refinements=6,
)
penalization=penalization,
lam=lam,
sc=spark.sparkContext,
)
model.fit(X)
only one of ModelAverage or QuicGraphicalLassoCV can make use of the spark context. The problem size and number of trials will determine the resolution that gives the fastest performance.
Installation
Both python2.7 and python3.6.x are supported. We use the black autoformatter to format our code. If contributing, please run this formatter checks will fail.
Clone this repo and run
python setup.py install
or via PyPI
pip install skggm
or from a cloned repo
cd inverse_covariance/pyquic
make
make python3 (for python3)
The package requires that numpy, scipy, and cython are installed independently into your environment first.
If you would like to fork the pyquic bindings directly, use the Makefile provided in inverse_covariance/pyquic.
This package requires the lapack libraries to by installed on your system. A configuration example with these dependencies for Ubuntu and Anaconda 2 can be found here.
Tests
To run the tests, execute the following lines.
python -m pytest inverse_covariance (python3 -m pytest inverse_covariance)
black --check inverse_covariance
black --check examples
Examples
Usage
In examples/estimator_suite.py we reproduce the plot_sparse_cov example from the scikit-learn documentation for each method provided (however, the variations chosen are not exhaustive).
An example run for n_examples=100 and n_features=20 yielded the following results.
For slightly higher dimensions of n_examples=600 and n_features=120 we obtained:
Plotting the regularization path
We've provided a utility function inverse_covariance.plot_util.trace_plot that can be used to display the coefficients as a function of lam_. This can be used with any estimator that returns a path. The example in examples/trace_plot_example.py yields:
Citation
If you use skggm or reference our blog post in a presentation or publication, we would appreciate citations of our package.
Jason Laska, Manjari Narayan, 2017. skggm 0.2.7: A scikit-learn compatible package for Gaussian and related Graphical Models. doi:10.5281/zenodo.830033
Here is the corresponding Bibtex entry
@misc{laska_narayan_2017_830033,
author = {Jason Laska and
Manjari Narayan},
title = {{skggm 0.2.7: A scikit-learn compatible package for
Gaussian and related Graphical Models}},
month = jul,
year = 2017,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.830033},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.830033}
}
References
BIC / EBIC Model Selection
- "Extended Bayesian Information Criteria for Gaussian Graphical Models" R. Foygel and M. Drton NIPS 2010
QuicGraphicalLasso / QuicGraphicalLassoCV
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"QUIC: Quadratic Approximation for sparse inverse covariance estimation" by C. Hsieh, M. A. Sustik, I. S. Dhillon, P. Ravikumar, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), October 2014.
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QUIC implementation found here and here with cython bindings forked from pyquic
Adaptive refitting (two-step methods)
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"High dimensional covariance estimation based on Gaussian graphical models" S. Zhou, P. R{"u}htimann, M. Xu, and P. B{"u}hlmann
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"Relaxed Lasso" N. Meinshausen, December 2006.
Randomized model averaging
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"Stability Selection" N. Meinhausen and P. Buehlmann, May 2009
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"Random Lasso" S. Wang, B. Nan, S. Rosset, and J. Zhu, Apr 2011
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"Mixed effects models for resampled network statistics improves statistical power to find differences in multi-subject functional connectivity" M. Narayan and G. Allen, March 2016
Convergence test
- "The graphical lasso: New Insights and alternatives" Mazumder and Hastie, 2012.
Repeated KFold cross-validation
- "Cross-validation pitfalls when selecting and assessing regression and classification models" D. Krstajic, L. Buturovic, D. Leahy, and S. Thomas, 2014.
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